Additional info, added Tuesday January 14 2014, 10:43 pm: I've had experiences where I'd be in the same room as my body and I'd be looking down on myself. Want to answer more questions in the Miscellaneous category? Maybe give some free advice about: Spirituality? Dragonflymagic answered Tuesday January 14 2014, 3:53 pm: I can't say that a body would continue to function and walk around when the spirit has left the body but is still attached by a cord, a tether which keeps the soul attached to the body so it can return. However, while awake one moment, a spirit can leave the next for whatever reason.
Here's why I think it's possible.
My father was sitting at a table at McDonalds with his buddies when all of a sudden as he sat there, he saw the soul of my dead maternal grandmother talking to him as she stood near their table. He was having trouble making out what she was saying, it was too quiet. The next thing he knew, he came to on the floor. His friends say he all of a sudden passed out and landed on the floor. I believe the moment he saw my grandmother was because he was no longer in his body. And when the soul leaves the body, there is nothing to animate it so all functions collapse, and so his body fell to the floor. It only happened to him this one time.
I have also read that our spirits have a need to be free of our bodies on a regular basis and will do so mainly at night when we are safely laying down in bed. You may have heard of people who say they do astral projection, like their soul being somewhere else where they are conscious of all they are experiencing and remember it. I have never experienced that. But I do get something else. I can be fully asleep but I wake in a jolt of startled fear cus I just felt like I was falling out of bed. If you have ever felt this, this is a sign that your soul was outside the body and when it re-entered, it did so too fast, more like colliding with the body rather than smoothly slipping back inside. On those few occasions it hits hard like that, you will instantly wake with a sensation that you were falling. You won't have any recollection of having left the body. Apparently our spirits do this regularly, daily. Its just that we don't notice all the other times when the spirit smoothly re enters the body. [ Dragonflymagic's advice column | Ask Dragonflymagic A Question ]
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